Feast of St. Nicholas of Flue, Swiss farmer, captain, councilor, judge, member of the assembly, mystic, hermit, father of ten children. Patron of Switzerland and Pontifical Swiss Guards.
Feast of St. William of Penacorada
Feast of St. William of Penacorada, Benedictine founder, from the monastery of Sathgun, Leon, Spain. Fled that monastery under aattck by Saracens. Founded the monastery of Santa Maria de los Valles, later renamed San Guillermo de Penacorda.
Feast of St. Joseph
Feast of St. Joseph, the husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary and legal father of Jesus Christ. Patron of The Catholic Church, unborn children, fathers, workers, carpenters, Belgium, Croatia, realtors, against doubt and hesitation and of a happy death
Feast of St. Eusebia
Feast of St. Eusebia, Benedictine abbess, daughter of Sts. Adalbald and Rictrudis. Elected abbess of Hamage Abbey in France at 12. Died 680.
Feast of St. Louise de Marillac
Feast of St. Louise de Marillac, co-founder, (with St. Vincent de Paul), the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. Patron of disappointing children, loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, sick people, social workers, Vincentian Service Corps…
Feast of St. Ansovinus
Feast of St. Ansovinus, Bishop and confessor, counselor to Louis the Pious, Holy Roman Emperor. Bishop of Camerino, Macerata, Marche, Italy. Patron of gardeners, invoked for good harvests. Died 840.
Feast of St. Paul Aurelian
Feast of St. Paul Aurelian, Bishop & Founder, first bishop of Quimper & Léon, one of the seven founder saints of Brittany. A pupil of Saint Illtud at Ynys Byr, established monasteries in Finistère, at Lampaul, Ushant Island & Batz…
Feast of St. Sophronius of Jerusalem
Feast of St. Sophronius of Jerusalem, monk, theologian, and Patriarch. Called the Sophist, he wrote the Florilegium, the life of St. John the Almsgive, the life of St. Mary of Egypt and composed 23 anacreontic odes on the feasts of…
Feast of St. Kessog
Feast of St. Kessog, Martyr, Prince, bishop, missionary active in the Lennox & southern Perthshire areas. Son of the king of Cashel in Ireland, he was a missionary bishop in Scotland. The Kessog oil field in the North Sea is…
Feast of St. Catherine of Bologna
Feast of St. Catherine of Bologna, Italian artist, founder, abbess, cloistered nun of The Poor Clares and author Seven Spiritual Weapons Necessary for Spiritual Warfare. Patron of artists, Bologna, Italy Liberal arts and against temptations. Died 1463.